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| 14.9.13 01:39 | | MAYORAL CANDIDATE #13: BOB FINE (DFL (DEMOCRATIC FARMER LABOR)) Hey look, yet another way to enter a party or principle for a DFLer - and probably another free edit without amending the filing by our Elections folk. Gotta love the government! (Sure hope I'm part of it next year!) But let's get back to Mr. Fine. He BARELY lives in Minneapolis! He resides in Linden Hills awfully close to the border, but he does qualify. He filed on 8/5. Fine, only 64, has been in public service for EVER - at least 15 years on the Park & Rec board, 18 years as a Civil Rights Commissioner, 28 years as a Hennepin County Conciliation Court Judge, Board of Estimate & Taxation, Zoning Board...one wonders why he hasn't already BEEN mayor, but I guess he's been busy doing some real work. He's also coached youth rec teams for almost 40 years. He's leaving the Park Board to run for mayor. I BELIEVE this is his first run for mayor, but obviously he's won several times for Park & Rec board. He's definitely earned his spot as one of the favored eight even if he's near the bottom of that group...which isn't necessarily a BAD thing, mind. I have a great concern that someone has conned him into thinking lawn signs are really important, but maybe I'm wrong and they are. I'm also distressed that he wants to raise $100,000 (he reported having raised just under $4,000 in the most recent filing) because more money = more suspicion from me. (I'm still just under $30, all self-financed, and holding!) Fine carries the special distinction of being the first (and thus far only) candidate to door knock on OUR door - I recognized him right away by his BOB FINE FOR MAYOR T-shirt and told him I was also running, but he STILL talked to me for a while. I asked him why he'd leave a position where he may have had more influence than the mayor had - he said he'd heard that one before, but he thinks the mayor's veto is a powerful tool. (Don't tell anyone, but I also think the mayor's veto is a powerful tool...but mostly for uniting the city council against the mayor. Still...) Anyway, we had a nice talk that probably took up more of his valuable time that he should have bothered investing in me but that left me with a really good impression of him. He's either a good guy or a great politician...perhaps he's both. We could do a lot worse than Bob Fine! He'd make a Fine mayor! I'm really lazy with this profile! Fine lets his Parks experience do almost all of the talking and take up most of his campaign - if you want his opinion on the stadium, good luck finding it. (He's said that knowing now what he knew then, he wouldn't be in favor of it, but it's super easy to say something like that after it's already happened.) I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this guy or not - I really can't! I like him a lot, but I don't think he's got a shot. Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: No relation [ Just over a third of the way through! That's both good AND bad news. ] |